diff -urNp syslog-ng-3.6.2.orig/lib/syslog-ng.h syslog-ng-3.6.2/lib/syslog-ng.h
--- syslog-ng-3.6.2.orig/lib/syslog-ng.h	2014-12-15 14:48:45.000000000 +0000
+++ syslog-ng-3.6.2/lib/syslog-ng.h	2015-01-28 21:25:42.469000000 +0000
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@
 #if ENABLE_ENV_WRAPPER
 #define PATH_SYSLOGNG           PATH_LIBEXECDIR "/syslog-ng"
 #endif
-#define PATH_PERSIST_CONFIG     PATH_LOCALSTATEDIR "/syslog-ng.persist"
+#define PATH_PERSIST_CONFIG     "/var/lib/syslog-ng/syslog-ng.persist"
 
 #define SAFE_STRING(x) ((x) ? (x) : "NULL")
 
diff -urNp syslog-ng-3.6.2.orig/modules/dbparser/dbparser.h syslog-ng-3.6.2/modules/dbparser/dbparser.h
--- syslog-ng-3.6.2.orig/modules/dbparser/dbparser.h	2014-12-15 14:48:45.000000000 +0000
+++ syslog-ng-3.6.2/modules/dbparser/dbparser.h	2015-01-28 21:26:58.719000000 +0000
@@ -27,8 +27,8 @@
 #include "parser/parser-expr.h"
 #include "patterndb.h"
 
-#define PATH_PATTERNDB_FILE     PATH_LOCALSTATEDIR "/patterndb.xml"
-#define PATH_XSDDIR             PATH_DATADIR "/xsd"
+#define PATH_PATTERNDB_FILE     "/var/lib/syslog-ng/patterndb.xml"
+#define PATH_XSDDIR             "/var/lib/syslog-ng/xsd"
 
 typedef struct _LogDBParser LogDBParser;
 
diff -urNp syslog-ng-3.6.2.orig/scripts/update-patterndb.in syslog-ng-3.6.2/scripts/update-patterndb.in
--- syslog-ng-3.6.2.orig/scripts/update-patterndb.in	2014-12-15 14:48:45.000000000 +0000
+++ syslog-ng-3.6.2/scripts/update-patterndb.in	2015-01-28 21:24:20.398000000 +0000
@@ -3,6 +3,6 @@ prefix=@prefix@
 exec_prefix=@exec_prefix@
 bindir=@bindir@
 sysconfdir=@sysconfdir@
-localstatedir=@localstatedir@
+localstatedir=/var/lib/syslog-ng
 
 ${bindir}/pdbtool merge -r --glob \*.pdb -D ${sysconfdir}/patterndb.d -p ${localstatedir}/patterndb.xml